Jhootha Sach, written by Yashpal , one of India's greatest contemporary Hindi language authors, was translated in English by his son Anand. The book is an epic novel about pre-partition Punjab and connects both history and fiction to narrate the tremendous hardships faced by ordinary people escaping violence in Lahore and trying to find their footing in the new post-partition India. As Vasudha Dalmia, Professor Emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, describes this book as one of the most important work on partition. Her full review of the book is available here : " The partition of pre-independence Punjab and the years thereafter, as they are played out in the centuries-old Lahore-Delhi nexus, form the backbone of the two volumes of Jhutha Sach (1958, 1960) or False Truth , Yashpal’s powerful epic novel. The first volume focuses on communally-torn Lahore in the year immediately before Partition and a little after. The second largely on a post-independence Delhi, milling with refugees – together they add up to more than 1000 pages. The short sentences, their matter of fact tone, an almost dry reportage style, which, while providing vivid detail, does not dwell on descriptions, inner turmoil or emotional upsurge, yet manage to convey a milieu, a period, an urban landscape with a rapidity and a power on a scale unmatched elsewhere in the writings of the times. " This Is Not That Dawn : Jhootha Sach Kindle Edition

On August 11th, around 3 PM, a mob surrounded a Muslim village of Sidhar Rajputan in the Amritsar District. According to the eye witness account, the zamindars were out tending the fields when the attack started from all four sides. Slowly the mob tightened its grip of the village and converged into the homes of the people. Zamindars and those working in the fields were first to be killed. And then those who were taking shelter inside the homes were killed by cutting a hole though the roof and pouring kerosene inside the homes and lighting them on fire. Only few survived, mostly children of ages 5 and under. The survivors were taken to the nearby hospital in Amritsar. Doctors who were not able to take care of the critically injured patients were given "Ram pudis", a concoction of poison. The eye witness in this interview also talks about how Hindus always treated them differently. They will not share food or eat together with the Muslim community. In one interesting note, the person talks about seven soldiers from the Indian Army, 4 Muslims and 3 Sikhs, who tried to save the village from the mob which was primarily aided by the soldiers from the Kapurthala riyasat .